JAMES CARROLL
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| James Carroll,
Winner of the 1996 National Book Award for his memoir
An American Requiem: My Father, and the War That
Came Between Us, is the author, most recently,
of Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews,
A History, as well as nine highly regarded novels.
A columnist for The Boston Globe, he is currently
at work on a history of the Pentagon. |
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Forbidden
Disappointments: Poems,
New York: Paulist Press, 1974; The
Winter Name of God, Sheed and Ward, 1975;
Madonna Red, Little Brown, 1976; Mortal
Friends Little Brown, 1978; Fault Lines,
Little Brown, 1980; Family Trade, G.K.
Hall 1982; Prince of Peace, Little Brown,
1984; Supply of Heroes, Dutton, 1986; Firebird,
New York, Dutton, 1989; Memorial Bridge,
Houghton Mifflin, 1991; The City Below,
Houghton Mifflin, 1994; An American Requiem,
Houghton Mifflin, 1996; Constantine's
Sword: The Church and the Jews, Houghton Mifflin,
2001
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DON
DELILLO
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native of the Bronx, New York, Don DeLillo is the
Winner of the 1985 National Book Award for White
Noise, and a three-time Finalist for the Award
for novels including Underworld. Winner of
the prestigious Jerusalem Prize, he is the author,
most recently, of the novel The Body Artist,
and the play Valparaiso. |
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Americana,
Houghton Mifflin, 1971; End Zone, Houghton
Mifflin, 1972; Great Jones Street, Houghton
Mifflin, 1973; Ratner's Star, Knopf, 1976;
Players, Knopf, 1977; Running Dog,
Knopf, 1978; ; Amazons, (Pseudonym
Cleo Birdwell) Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1980;
The
Names, Knopf, 1982; White Noise, Viking,
1985; Libra, Viking, 1988; Mao II,
Viking, 1991; Underworld, Scribner, 1997;
The Body Artist, Scribner, 2001
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E.L.
DOCTOROW
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| Winner
of the 1986 National Book Award for his novel World's
Fair, E.L. Doctorow is also the author of The
Book of Daniel, Loon Lake and Billy
Bathgate, all Finalists for the Award. A recipient
of a National Humanities Medal, he is the author,
most recently, of City of God. |
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Welcome
to Hard Times, Simon and Schuster, 1960; Big
As Life, Simon and Schuster, 1966; The
Book of Daniel, Random House, 1970; Ragtime,
Random House, 1975; Loon Lake, Random House,
1980; World's Fair, Random House, 1985;
Billy Bathgate, Random House, 1989; The
Waterworks, Penguin, 1997; City of God,
Plume, 2001
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CHARLES JOHNSON
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| Winner
of the 1990 National Book Award for his novel Middle
Passage, Charles Johnson teaches fiction at
the University of Washington, where he holds the
S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollack Professorship for
Excellence in English. A MacArthur Fellow, he is
also the author of novels including the recent Dreamer;
two collections of short stories; and two collections
of comic art, among other works. |
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Welcome
to Hard Times, Simon and Schuster, 1960; Big
As Life, Simon and Schuster, 1966; The
Book of Daniel, Random House, 1970; Ragtime,
Random House, 1975; Loon Lake, Random House,
1980; World's Fair, Random House, 1985;
Billy Bathgate, Random House, 1989; The
Waterworks, Penguin, 1997; City of God,
Plume, 2001
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DIANE JOHNSON 
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A
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction
for her novels Le Divorce and Lying Low,
Diane Johnson is also a Finalist for the National
Book Award for Nonfiction, for Lesser Lives,
a biography of the first wife of British novelist
George Meredith. The author, most recently, of the
novel Le Mariage, she also wrote the screenplay
for the Stanley Kubrick film "The Shining",
and currently divides her time between homes in
San Francisco and Paris.
Please
click here for a more indepth profile on Diane Johnson. |
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Fair
Game; Loving Hands at Home; Burning, Penguin
Putnam, 1998; The Shadow Knows, Dutton,
1998; Lying Low, Dutton/Plume, 1997;
Persian Nights, Dutton/Plume, 1997; Health
and Happiness, Penguin Putnam, 1998; Le
Divorce, Dutton Signet, 1997; Le Mariage,
Dutton/Plume, 2001
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PHILIP
LEVINE
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native of Detroit, Michigan, Philip Levine is a
two-time Winner of the National Book Award, for
his collections What Work Is and Ashes.
A recipient of awards including the Pulitzer Prize
and the National Book Critics Circle Prize, he was
very many years a faculty member of the University
of California in Fresno. His most recent collection
of poems is The Mercy. |
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On
the Edge,Stone Wall Press, 1963; Not This
Pig, Wesleyan University Press, 1968; Pili's
Wall, Unicorn Press, 1986; Red Dust,
1971; They Feed They Lion, MacMillan, 1972;
1933, MacMillan, 1974; The Names of
the Lost, MacMillan, 1976; Ashes: Poems
New and Old, Scribner, 1979; 7 Years From
Somewhere, Scribner, 1979; One For the
Rose, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1999;
Selected Poems, MacMillan, 1984; Sweet
Will, Atheneum, 1985; A Walk With Tom Jefferson,
Knopf, 1988; New Selected Poems, Knopf,
1991; What Work Is, Knopf, 1991; The
Simple Truth, Knopf, 1996; Unselected Poems,
Greenhouse Review Press, 1997; The Mercy,
Random House, 2000
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DAVID
LEVERING LEWIS
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| A
two-time Finalist for the National Book Award for
his biographies W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of
a Race and W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for
Equality and the American Century, David Levering
Lewis holds the Martin Luther King, Jr., chair at
Rutgers University. Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes,
among other honors, he is currently at work on a
book with the working title, The Islamic Invention
of Europe in the Eighth Century. |
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Prisoners
of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair, Henry Holt,
1995; District of Columbia: a Bicentennial
History, W.W. Norton & Company, 1977 ;
King: A Critical Biography, Praeger, 1970;
When Harlem Was in Vogue, Penguin USA,
1997; Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America,
Abrams,Harry N Inc, 1994; The Race to Fashoda,
Henry Holt, 2001; W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography
of a Race, 1868-1919, Henry Holt, 1994; W.E.B.
Du Bois: The Fight For Equality in the American
Century, 1919-1963, Henry Holt & Company,
2000
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BARRY
LOPEZ
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| Winner
of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, for his
epic Arctic Dreams, Barry Lopez is the author
of works including the multiple award-winning Of
Wolves and Men, Field Notes, Winter
Count and Crow and Weasel. The author,
most recently, of the short story collection Light
Action in the Caribbean, he travels extensively
around the world, with recent trips to Cuba, Belize,
South Georgia and Greenland. |
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Desert
Notes, Avon Books, 1990; Giving Birth to
Thunder, HarperCollins, 1990; Of Wolves
and Men, Simon & Schuster, 1979; River
Notes, Avon Books, 1980; Winter Count; Artic
Dreams, Vintage Books, 2001; Crossing Open
Ground, Random House, 1989; Crow and Weasel,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998; The Rediscovery
of North America, Vintage Books, 1992; Field
Notes, Morrow,William & Co, 1995; Lessons
from the Wolverine, University of Georgia
Press, 1997; About This Life, Random House,
1999; Apologia, University of Georgia Press,
1998; Light Action in the Caribbean, HighBridge
Company, 2000
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DAVID
MCCULLOUGH
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| A
two-time Winner of the National Book Award, the
Pulitzer Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, David
McCullough is also a recipient of the National Book
Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters, among many other honors. Long
familiar to television audiences as host of the
highly acclaimed series "Smithsonian World"
and "The American Experience", he counts
among his most recent works the definitive biographies
of John Adams, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt. |
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The
Johnstown Flood, Simon & Schuster, 1986;
The Great Bridge, Simon & Schuster,
1983; The Path Between the Seas, Simon
& Schuster, 1978; Mornings on Horseback,
Simon & Schuster, 1982; Brave Companions:
Portraits in History, Simon & Schuster,
1982; Truman, Simon & Schuster, 1993;
John Adams, Simon & Schuster, 2002
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ALICE
MCDERMOTT
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| Alice
McDermott is a two-time Winner of the National Book
Award, for her novels Charming Billy and
That Night. A native of Long Island who teaches
at Johns Hopkins University, she is also the author
of A Bigamist's Daughter, At Weddings
and Wakes, and the soon to be released Child
of My Heart. |
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Bigamist's Daughter, Random House, 1999;
That Night, Dell Publishing Company, 1999;
At Wedding and Wakes, Delacorte Press,
1998; Charming Billy, Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1997; Child of My Heart, Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2002
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CYNTHIA
OZICK
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| A
two-time Finalist for the National Book Award, for
The Puttermesser Papers and The Pagan
Rabbi and Other Stories, Cynthia Ozick is the
author as well of critical works including Metaphor
& Memory, Fame & Folly, Art
& Ardor, and the National Book Critics Circle
Award-winning Quarrel & Quandary. Among
other honors, she is the recipient of the Lannan
Foundation Literary Award for Fiction and the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Strauss Living Award. |
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Trust,
N.A.L, 1983; The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories,
Syracuse University Press, 1995; Bloodshed
and Three Novellas, Syracuse University Press,
1995; Levitation: Five Fictions, Penguin
USA, 1983; The Cannibal Galaxy, Syracuse
University Press, 1995; The Messiah of Stockholm,
Vintage Books, 1988; The Shawl, Vintage
Books, 1990; Portrait of the Artist as a Bad
Character, Pimlico, 1994; The Puttermesser
Papers, Random House, 1996; Quarrel and
Quandary, Vintage Books, 2001
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GRACE
PALEY
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| Native
New Yorker Grace Paley is a finalist of the National
Book Award, for Enormous Changes at the Last
Minute. Among her other works are The Little
Disturbances of Man, Just as I Thought,
and her most recent collection of poems, Long
Walks and Intimate Talks, with illustrations
by Vera B. Williams. A longtime feminist and peace
activist, she was the first New York State Author
appointed to that post. |
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The
Little Disturbances of Man, Viking Penguin,
1985; Enormous Changes at the Last Minute,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985; Later the
Same Day, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985;
Leaning Forward, Tilbury House, 1986; Long
Walks and Intimate Talks, Feminist Press at
CUNY, 1984; Begin Again: New and Collected
Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000; The
Collected Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1995; Just As I Thought, Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 1999
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LINDA
PASTAN
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| A
two-time Finalist for the National Book Award for
her collections of poems Carnival Evening: New
and Selected Poems, and PM/AM: New and Selected
Poems, Linda Pastan is the author of nine other
collections, including, most recently, The Last
Uncle. A past Poet Laureate of Maryland, where
she lives, she counts the Dylan Thomas Award and
the Pushcart Prize among many other honors. |
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Perfect Circle of Sun, Ohio University Press,
1971; Aspects of Eve, Liveright Publishing
Corporation, 1975; The Five Stages of Grief,
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1978; Waiting
for My Life, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.,
1981; PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, Norton,
W. W. & Company, Inc., 1982; A Fraction of
Darkness, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.,
1985; The Imperfect Paradise, Norton, W.
W. & Company, Inc., 1988; Heroes in Disguise,
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., 1991; An Early
Afterlife, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.,
1996; Carnival Evening, Norton, W. W. &
Company, Inc., 1999; The Last Uncle, Norton,
W. W. & Company, Inc., 2002 |
KATHERINE
PATERSON
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| Katherine
Paterson, one of the nation's most honored writers
of young people's literature, is a two-time Winner
of the National Book Award, for The Great Gilly
Hopkins and The Master Puppeteer. To
date, her books-including the classics Bridge
to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved and
Jip, His Story-have been published in 25
countries. Among her most recent books are a collection
of essays for adults, The Invisible Child,
and The Same Stuff as Stars. |
| Bridge
to Terabithia, HarperCollins Children's Books,
1987; The Great Gilly Hopkins, HarperCollins
Children's Books, 1987; Jacob Have I Loved,
HarperCollins Children's Books, 1990; Lyddie,
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers,1994; Master
Puppeteer, HarperCollins Children's Books, 1989;
Jip: His Story, Penguin Putnam, 1998; The
Sign of the Chrysanthemum, HarperCollins Children's
Books, 1988; The Same Stuff as Stars, Houghton
Mifflin, 2002; Park's Quest, Penguin USA,
1989; The Smallest Cow in the World, HarperCollins
Children's Books, 1993; Parzival: The Quest of
the Grail Knight, Penguin Putnam Books for Young
Readers, 2000; Preacher's Boy, HarperCollins
Children's Books, 2001; The King's Equal,
HarperCollins Children's Books, 1999; Of Nightingales
That Weep, HarperCollins Children's Books, 1989;
Flip-Flop Girl, Penguin Putnam Books for
Young Readers, 1996; The Invisible Child,
Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2001 |
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ROBERT STONE
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| A
Winner of the National Book Award for his novel
Dog Soldier and a Finalist for his novels
A Flag for Sunrise, Outerbridge Reach
and Damascus Gate, Robert Stone is also the
author of the novels A Hall of Mirrors and
Children of Light, as well as Bear and
His Daughter, a collection of short stories.
A faculty member at Yale University, he counts among
many other honors the American Academy of Arts and
Institute of Arts and Letters Award and the John
Dos Passos Prize for Literature. |
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Hall of Mirrors, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997;
Dog Soldiers, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997;
A Flag for Sunrise, Vintage Books, 1992;
Children of Light, Vintage Books, 1992; Outerbridge
Reach, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998; Bear
and His Daughter, Houghton Mifflin Company,
1997; Damascus Gate, Simon & Schuster,
1999 |
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